Copenhagen-based Tobias Hjørnet Pedersen's latest record was inspired by the information overload of the social media age—specifically how it can distort our notions of what is reality and what is fictional. For Information City, Pedersen samples from all sorts of media, including YouTube videos and memes, and works them into uptempo music informed by drum & bass, jungle, footwork and electro. The LP comes through the relatively new Berlin label Foul-Up, run by Misantrop, and follows Galaxian's well-received Blowback EP from April.

Pedersen has been making UK-inspired dance music hybrids since 2011, primarily released through Denmark's Teal Recordings and, more recently, Circle Vision.

Listen to "A Good Wisdom."

TracklistA1 Real Without Origin
A2 Lullabies For The Lost And Forgotten
A3 We Never Truly Understood The Architecture
A4 They Mobilized Ignorance And Slack
A5 Enter 89
A6 He Used His Bench Lathe To Form His Wooden Sculpture
B1 Information City
B2 A Good Wisdom
B3 Downloaded 4 R. D4Wkins
B4 The Truth Hides The Fact That There Is None
B5 Never-Present

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